The artists in the show do much the same: deconstructing and reconstructing ideas and objects in their work, which includes collage, quilting, textiles and painting.
The tougher problem the biology education research community faces is: what can instructors do to help undergraduates reconstruct their ideas in biology to align with experts' scientific knowledge?
We have all likely had the experience of understanding something so clearly upon listening to an expert explain it and then, in the quiet of our own minds, being unable to reconstruct the ideas and why they were so insightful at a later point.
Thomas Demand: I try to reconstruct an idea of reality we might all share – 'illusion' always implies there's a trick or a trap, a moment where you say 'oh, I was fooled'.
Philosophers have also written extensively on the concept of genetic information, the general tenor of the literature being that it is difficult to reconstruct this idea precisely in a way that does justice to the apparent weight placed on it by molecular biologists (Sarkar 1996; Maynard Smith 2000; Griffiths 2001; Jablonka 2002).
Now that we are making our own work, we can use our creation process to reconstruct some established ideas about integrated dance – our new work Artificial Things is full of new and unusual dance sequences that came from looking at things in more detail.
Emma: Have you had to reconstruct your own idea of family, or does it come naturally to you from your parents' house?
In this section I will reconstruct her accounts of mind, ideas, knowledge, belief, and method.
Were it not for Plutarch, our grasp of Stoic and Epicurean philosophy would be much less extensive than it is, and our ability to reconstruct and appreciate their ideas much reduced.
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